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In reply to the discussion: Wow. Kevin Siers cartoon: Torture Cases [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)26. That comic illustrates the very real connection between the torture and other violent law
enforcement abuses. I know you are a centrist but you need to think this through. As above, so below. If the top of the law enforcement chain, Federal agencies, are given impunity to rape and to torture then you are simply commanding that there be more abuse by local authorities carried out with impunity.
Anyone who actually gives a fuck about racist cops or fixed courts should be furious about the program of systemic torture and the manipulation of the laws and courts.
Pretending that it is possible to run or to excuse a torture program and also maintain excellent and justice minded policing and court systems is going to help make more widows and weeping mothers.
I think your position on this is the wrong one. Insanely wrong.
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That comic illustrates the very real connection between the torture and other violent law
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
#26
If the President continues to soft-sell torture, it won't set well historically.
rhett o rick
Dec 2014
#22